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Life is Lived in the Little Moments

Life is Lived in the Little Moments

Who do you share the little moments with?

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May 29, 2024
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A few months ago, I was hanging out with my friend when she got a text. She opened it and laughed, leaning over to show me a picture of an Reese’s peanut butter cup.

Apparently, her colleague (who’d texted her the picture) has a weakness for Reese’s peanut butter cups — in the pack of two, it was almost impossible for him to only eat one.

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In an amazing act of willpower, he had somehow managed to curb his “addiction” and only eat one, hence the celebratory picture of the lone uneaten peanut butter cup.

I laughed along with my friend, and our conversation meandered on. But this simple (mundane?) interaction between my friend and her colleague got me thinking:

Who would I send a picture of an uneaten Reese’s peanut butter cup to?

At that moment, I felt that there was nobody I would send a picture like that to. My life at that…

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